Posted December 18, 2010 at 2:00 pm | 2 comments
Guitarists hate to change their strings, it’s just a fact. There’s a well-spoken myth that floats around the guitar world that players want to make it big so they can have fame and fortune. The truth is, we all want to make it big so we can afford to pay someone to change our strings for us on a regular basis. Imagine how cool it would be to be able to play on fresh strings all the time, without having to sit there are change them every 3 to 4 days when they begin to wear out.
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Posted December 18, 2010 at 11:32 am | One comment
With the economy taking a nosedive a few years back, it seems that two new paradigms have emerged in the guitar manufacturing sector. The first is that big companies such as Gibson and Fender lowered the prices of their products during the downturn, making their instruments more accessible to the average person, which many people took advantage of. But, there was also another more unexpected byproduct of the recession. People began looking for high-quality instruments that would give them the best bang for their buck.
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Posted December 17, 2010 at 3:00 pm | 2 comments
As guitarists, we spend countless hours searching for the perfect tone. We go through dozens of guitars over the years, waiting for the perfect axe to fall into our hands. We bring together every possible combination of heads and cabinets, combos and all-in-ones, tubes and transistors, trying to find the exact combination to bring to live the sound that’s floating around in our heads.
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Posted December 16, 2010 at 10:00 am | 3 comments
We guitarists tend to fall into two camps: those of us, typically classical and folk players, who revere the history of the instrument and value heritage and legacy over innovation; and those of us, typically rock and jazz players, who applaud the pioneers and mad scientists whose breakthroughs changed the way we think about the instrument.
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Posted December 13, 2010 at 10:00 am | 3 comments
As Gretsch Musical Instruments approaches its 125th year in business, it is fitting that the man guiding the company’s future is Fred Gretsch. Since he was a boy, Fred has been enamored by the company’s traditions and the excitement that surrounds
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Posted December 7, 2010 at 10:00 am | One comment
It is not often that a refinement to a guitar accessory can be labeled as true innovation. Guitar picks have always differed in their material, shape and thickness.
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Posted December 3, 2010 at 3:00 pm | 2 comments
We received word that Brandwolf, an Annapolis, Maryland, based firm owned by international marketing consultant, Peter Wolf, had entered into a partnership with the boutique amp company,
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Posted December 3, 2010 at 2:00 pm | One comment
The opening day of Experience PRS 2010 included a media session, where Paul Reed Smith made some gracious introductory remarks, followed up by Jack Higgenbotham, President, PRS Guitars and well-known author, Tom Wheeler, who also served as the master of ceremonies for the session.
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Posted November 15, 2010 at 1:00 pm | No comments
I own precisely 29 books. Not much of a library for someone writing a book review. The number, to a book, is 29 because I counted them this morning. Though an avid reader, three years ago I sold, gave away, or abandoned every book I owned that didn’t mean something significant to me. I wanted to travel light when I moved from California to Portugal.
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Posted November 7, 2010 at 11:00 am | 2 comments
As the Director of Martin Guitar Artist and Limited Editions, Boak collaborates with top celebrity guitarists to design and build some of the most unique and finest instruments made. An affable character who puts everyone at ease, his intellect runs deep and his creative juices smolder with a desire to shake up the status quo while at the same time honoring and protecting the finest aspects of the Martin tradition.
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